Table 2 Characteristics of included studies
From: Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 7. Recent advances in supervision
Descriptor | Count of included studies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Case studies from compendium | Academic articles identified from literature search | Total | |
Study type | |||
Case study | 29 | 0 | 29 |
Descriptive/qualitative | 0 | 15 | 15 |
Experimental | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Expert opinion/practitioner resource | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Review | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Publication date | |||
2017 (after 15 June 2017) | 0 | 4 | 4 |
2018 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
2019 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
2020 | 29 | 3 | 32 |
2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Regional focus | |||
Africa | 16 | 19 | 35 |
South-East Asia | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Eastern Mediterranean | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Americas | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Multiple | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Total | 29 | 26 | 55 |